CLAUSE 46.—(Orders in Council to be Laid before Parliament.)

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(1) Any Irish Transfer Order in Council made under this Act shall be laid before both Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom within forty days next after it is made if Parliament is then sitting, or if not, within forty days after the commencement of the then next ensuing Session; and if an Address is presented to His Majesty by either of these Houses within the next subsequent forty days praying that any such Order may be annulled, His Majesty may thereupon by Order in Council annul the same, and the Order so annulled shall forthwith become void, but without prejudice to the validity of any proceedings which may in the meantime have been taken under the Order.

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(2) Any Irish Transfer Order in Council made under this Act shall, subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, have effect as if enacted in this Act.

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Government Amendment proposed: In Sub-section (1), leave out the words "forty days" ["within the next subsequent forty days"], and insert instead thereof the words "twenty-one days on which that House has sat next after any such Order is laid before it."—[Mr. Birrell.]